CARDINAL BOURNE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22628, 20 July 1935, Page 28

CARDINAL BOURNE

ESTATE OF £17,000 SECRET CHARITY TRUST. The will of Cardinal Bourne. Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, who died on January 1 at the age of 73, has just been proved. He left property valued at £17,308, with net personalty £16,541. The will, dated January, 1929, was mritten in the cardinal’s own handwriting on two sheets of notepaper. He left the whole of his property to Bishop Joseph Butt, Bishop Manuel Bidwell, Monsignor George Coote, Monsignor Maurice Emanuel Carton de Wiart, and Monsignor Lionel Evans, “as joint tenants and for their own benefit.” He also appointed them executors of his will. Cardinal Bourne had, however, instructed his executors, by means of a secret trust, to dispose of hie estate along specified charitable lines. Their solicitors said recently:—‘‘The executors of the will wish us to state that the whole of the estate, although left to the executors personally, was, in effect, assigned by Cardinal Bourne for certain specified charitable purposes. They have no power of disposition over it.”